Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath

by Marilynn Desmond

Book Overview

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text. The Ars amatoria ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473179
• ISBN13: 9780801473173
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"